5 Players Skyrocketing Up The Fantasy Rankings (After The NFL Draft)
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Sal Vetri
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🗓️ 27 April 2026
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| 0:00.0 | The NFL draft has come and gone and it just absolutely shook up fantasy football. |
| 0:04.3 | Basically, everything has changed. |
| 0:05.7 | So in this video, I'm going to be breaking down the most important things you need to know. We're going to talk about the five players who are currently skyrocketing up the fantasy rankings now that the NFL draft is over. And in my opinion, we have to start with Cam Scataboo and kind of veteran running backs as a whole, but specifically Cam Skateau because he's walking away from the NFL draft a massive winner for this specific reason. As you can see right here, this is the order of the first round. Fernando Mendoza number one, David Bailey, number two, and number three was Jeremiah Love to the Arizona Cardinals. There was a lot of talk and a lot of connections and links to Jeremiah Love either landing at number four to the Titans most likely and possibly even the Giants at 5. Now maybe that didn't seem like the giant he was ever going to get there. It probably didn't seem likely, but he went at 3, which also didn't seem likely. But the most important takeaway, if we pull up the team changes tracker, this quickly shows you the most important highlights on offense this offseason, additions and subtractions via free agency and trades. And then the NFL draft, this is the giant right here. Most important news for Cam Scataboo, no new running back competition. Nobody in free agency, just a fallback in Patrick Ricard. And in terms of the NFL draft, they didn't take anybody. Not only did Jeremiah Love not land there, the star running back in this year's NFL |
| 1:11.1 | draft, really the only star running back in this year's NFL draft. No other running back landed there, which if you fast forward just two months ago to March in free agency, there were rumors that the Giants wanted to try and get. Kenneth Walker, Travis Etyon, one of these big name running backs, which wasn't going to be good news for Scatibu. But obviously that did not happen. you can see the giant draft right here there's not a single running back on this board the only |
| 1:30.5 | skill position player was Malachi Fields, a third round big body wide receiver out of Notre Dame, which is probably a solid pick for them, which means that Cam Scadaboo is just going to run back the same competition as last year. As of right now, Devin Singletary is still with the team after restructuring his contract. Tyron Tracy enters his third year with the team as well, a former fifth round pick. And Cam Scadaboo, who already jumped both of these guys last year when Scatibu was actually healthy hitting his stride, he's going to be the RB1 to start the season, assuming that he's healthy. He had a gruesome injury to his ankle, his fibula, all these things. He fractured it. It's a four to six month recovery. However, that ankle dislocation that he suffered in week eight and caused him to miss the second half of his rookie season, it looks like he should be good to go for training camp or OTAs. You can see right here. Sports MD analysis over on Twitter, he's a good follow. He points out a couple of Giants injury news, Malik neighbors. but for the purposes of this video in our conversation, |
| 2:35.3 | Cam Scadaboo will likely be ready for OTAs. The data favors a 20% dip in his first 12 months post this injury. So probably around midseason, he'll be 100% again. But as of week one, he should be about 80 to 90% of his former self, which is pretty solid considering how bad that injury was. But the good news from Scataboo doesn't stop there. |
| 3:07.7 | If we pull up this team changes tracker in the fantasy blueprint. You could check it out right now at the lowest price all year at join the blueprint.com. He also got a first round top 10 pick in Francis Moanoa, an offensive tackle, the second tackle off the board, one pick after Spencer Fano, who went to the Browns. A lot of people had Francis Mowanoa, excuse me, as the number one tackle in this class, and for good reason. This is a guy who is very consistent. He started 42 consecutive games at Miami, a Miami program that went to the college football championship last year. The reason why that's important is because he was going up against the best competition, as recent as last year, in college football for most of the year. |
| 3:08.5 | This is a monster of a man. He's 6'29 pounds. He probably won't play tackle, at least in my opinion, and early reports are going to say that he's going to kick into guard right away, and that's great. I mean, this is a guy who only allowed two total sacks, 10 total pressures, can get it done in the run game as well. this is going to help KM Skataboo, who last season was dealing with his own injuries, of course. |
| 3:27.1 | He only ended up running for 410 yards, five scores across eight games. But again, that was just eight games and he didn't start the season as the RB1. He started it as like later around fourth round pick rookie. But last season, in the games where Scataboo played at least 50% of the snap, so he was basically the starter |
| 3:40.9 | in those six games. He averaged 96 total yards per game and 19.1 fantasy points per contest. |
| 3:46.4 | He also has a brand new coaching staff with John Harbaugh coming over from the Ravens. |
| 3:49.9 | He led the NFL in rushing yards and yards per carry since 2008. |
| 3:54.5 | That is absolutely insane in both categories. |
| 3:56.6 | So that's an 18 year sample. Over those 18 years, which team led the NFL in yards per carry in rushing yards? John Hobber on the Ravens, and it's not just because Derek Henry was there the last few seasons. So everything, in my opinion, is lining up for Cam Scadaboo to be a very strong fantasy pick this year, depending on where you can get him as like maybe a third or a fourth round pick coming off the, assuming all of that starts to line up nicely. Now, the next guy I want to talk about is actually a rookie running back who benefited from the NFL draft because Judarian Price, the other running back out of Notre Dame, the 22-year-old, he ended up securing first round capital because the Seahawks, as it was rumored by a lot of teams, took him in the first round at pick 32. Now, check out Adam Carter's tweet right here. |
| 4:32.3 | This is pretty interesting when you look at it. |
| 4:34.6 | Obviously, Judarian Price, he played behind Jeremiah 11 college. He didn't have the biggest sample. But the only power four running backs drafted in the first one to two rounds since 2015. So you're talking about the past 10 to 11 years, who have had a missed tackle rate above 20%, |
| 4:47.1 | a passer rating when targeted above 140, and 14 yards per reception are better in college. |
| 4:52.8 | So basically to boil that down, they can break tackles, they can catch passes, and those |
| 4:56.1 | passes are efficient. |
| 4:57.6 | Judarian Price, Christian McCaffrey, Joe Mixon, James Cook. |
| 5:01.3 | Pretty good company for Judarian Price to be on. |
| 5:03.6 | He is going to be a guy who |
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